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SEBASTIAN ARMESTO
(1982 - )Nationality: British
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Literary Agent: Curtis Brown Group Ltd
Sebastian Armesto is an English film, television and Theatre actor. He is the son of the historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. Armesto has acted in high-profile Theatre productions in Britain, including three shows at the National Theatre and one at the Royal Court. He also writes and directs Theatre with company simple8. His productions include directing and adapting Les enfants du Paradis to great acclaim. Most recently, he co-wrote and directed a play based on William Hogarth's the Four Stages of Cruelty.
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Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Don't Sleep There Are Snakes Four Stages Of Cruelty, The Les Enfants Du Paradis Moby-DickCabinet of Dr Caligari, The
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Franzis Gruber, a lowly bureaucrat, lives a neat and ordered life in a sleepy, provincial German town. When a travelling fair arrives, full of clowns, freaks, magicians and sleepwalkers, it drags Franzis into a series of nightmarish murders spinning dreams into reality, the imagined into truth and order into chaos.
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by Dudley Hinton and Sebastian Armesto with simple8. the Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is one of the most influential films of all time: a box office smash in 1920, it came to define cinematic expressionism and inspire Film Noir. Torn from the screen, simple8 transforms the film into a fast, frenzied fairground sideshow with a "pungently evocative and blackly amusing master-class in the art of poor theatre" - Time Out.
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Play/Drama
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Male: 6 Female: 2 Other: -
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Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 11 Page 587
Top of PageDon't Sleep There Are Snakes
Synopsis:
Piraha [(n) pira'ha] a remote Amazonian tribe with a language no outsider has ever understood. Daniel Everett, a linguist and missionary, is sent into the jungle with a clear purpose: to learn their language and convert them to Christianity. But as he struggles to communicate, he uncovers a culture like nothing he's ever imagined. What he discovers blows apart modern linguistic theory, forcing him to question his faith and his understanding of what it means to be human.
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by Dudley Hinton and Sebastian Armesto with simple8. Based on the true story and book by Daniel Everett
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Top of PageFour Stages Of Cruelty, The
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1751. London is over-crowded. the morals are as loose as the women and the crime as free as the gin. On the streets, prostitutes, footpads and highwaymen coalesce with Dukes, members of Parliament and anyone in between. all scrap for profit. all seek an escape from the drudgery of life. Somewhere near the bottom of this heap is an orphan named Tom Nero. Trapped in a brutal and compelling struggle to survive, he grapples, hustles and kills to rise above the fate society has dealt him.
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Written By Adam Brace And Sebastian Armesto based on the series of engravings by William Hogarth
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Top of PageLes Enfants Du Paradis
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adaptation by Dudley Hinto And Sebastian Armesto from screenplay by Jacques Prevert
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adaptation
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Male: 8 Female: 6 Other: -
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Top of PageMoby-Dick
Nantucket.1851. Centre of a whaling industry that transformed blubber into the oils and candles that lit the world. It's there that a schoolmaster called Ishmael arrives to ship on a whale-boat. He enrols under Ahab, Captain of the Pequod a man bent on destroying the white whale that lost him his leg. Certain the destruction of his nemesis will slake his thirst; Ahab's single-minded pursuit of Moby-Dick consumes Ishmael, the crew and the Pequod itself.
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A new play adapted from Herman Melville's novel
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Simple8
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Oberon Books (2013) >>> 978-1849435109
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Male: 8 Female: - Other: -
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